Workers of All Colors Unite : Race and the Origins of American Socialism / Lorenzo Costaguta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costaguta, Lorenzo, author.

Series:

Working class in American history.

Working Class in American History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism--United States--History.

Socialism.

Working class--United States--History.

Working class.

Equality--United States--History.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Summary:

"As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific racism. But others stood with Workingmen's Party leader J. P. McDonnel in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role. Costaguta charts the socialist movement's journey through the conflict and down a path that ultimately abandoned scientific racism in favor of an internationalist class-focused and racial-conscious American socialism. As he shows, the shift relied on a strong immigrant influence personified by Curacaoan migrant and future IWW cofounder Daniel De Leon. The racial-conscious movement that emerged became American socialism's most common approach to race in the twentieth century and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. A Racialized History of the Origins of American Socialism

"Freedom for All": German American Socialism and Race before 1876

"Geographies of Peoples": Ethnicity and Racial Thinking in the Early SLP

Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Immigrants, 1876-1890

"Regardless of Color": The SLP and African Americans, 1876-1890

Savage Capitalists, Civilized Indians The SLP and Native Americans, 1876-1890

The SLP in the 1890s: Americanization and Socialist Evolutionism

Conclusion. The Past and the Future of Racial Socialism.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780252054082

0252054083

OCLC:

1345278540